Mikhail Roshnyak, Myth, 1989, Oil on Canvas

Stunning and complex work from the most active contemporary Russian artist Mikhail Roshniak (михаил рошняк)

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Front painting inscription: (back lower margin in Cyrillic)

"Myth is an apparent island
Among the measures of happy seas"

Back painting info: (Cyrillic)

"Mith"
91x55
M. Roshniak (михаил рошняк)
(Phone number)
Moscow


Mikhail Roshnyak was born in 1958 in Sterlitamak (Bashkiria, USSR) and studied in Moscow, at the Institute of Graphic Arts. In 1992 he founded the Miros-Yggs group in Leipzig and in 1993 he published the magazine "All-Manach" in Moscow, dedicated to the problems of alternative art. He is a member of the Union of Painters of Russia. Lives and works in Moscow.

For many years he has been studying the life and work of the famous futurist David Burliuk, who lived and worked in Bashkiria at the beginning of the 20th century. In Moscow, Mikhail Roshnyak held an exhibition dedicated to his work. And in the Buzdyaksky district of Bashkiria, where David Burliuk lived and worked at the beginning of the 20th century in 1915-1918, the artist plans to organize a biennale with the participation of modern painters. The creative method of the artist himself, according to a number of art critics, is quite unique. Doctor of Philology, member of the Russian PEN Center, author of many publications in Russian and foreign anthologies and collections Alexander Bubnov notes the particular style of the artist's works. “In the paintings of Mikhail Roshnyak, the earth expresses itself, presents itself and in its direct participation on the canvas - our whole country, suffering, and beautiful.

According to Moscow art critic Galina Fayngold, the artist’s exhibition in the space of the museum-apartment of Alexei Tolstoy is a conceptual phenomenon in itself: Tolstoy is known as a poem poet, and Mikhail Roshnyak paints his paintings directly with soil. “At the same time, the relationship between the writer and the artist is deeper and is not reduced only to the word“ soil ”. The new soil science is the desire to “turn the dead into the living,” the uprising of the free Spirit against the mercenary-usurious civilization, the return of man to his true being, the artist’s appeal to the fundamental principles of being, to archetypal memory, ”the art critic believes.

According to the director of the Moscow Aster Art Gallery Marina Shchelokova, the style of the author’s works emphasizes the need for attention to the spiritual life of a person in the modern world


1984-1989 - studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute with A. Vasnetsov, E. Zharenova;
1991-1993 - internship at the Higher School of Graphics and Book Art (Leipzig, Germany);
1987 - admitted to the Moscow Trade Union of Graphic Artists (TSHR);
1994 - 1997 organizer and curator of relevant projects, together with O. Mavromati,
A. Dugin, S. Kuskov, E. Limonov, G. Vinogradov, S.
Kurekhin, S. Ponomarev, N. Dmitriev, M. Katkova, A. Aygi , E. Kasimov, gr. TANATOS
(Spirit and Soil 1,2, "Crusade", "Archeology of Consciousness", "Extremism
and Erotica", "STOP NATO", etc.)
1996 - 2000 participant of international art fairs (Strassburg, Geneva)
1997 - 2002 organizer and curator of club performances;
2004 - together with S. Ponomarev establishes the ART Center "OPEN PROJECTS";
2007-2009 - organizer and curator of exhibitions together with Alexander Shumov, Mikhail Alshibaya, Willy Melnikov, Mikhail Pogarsky, (Through the Times, Iodine label or Fractal mythology, PSYCHODELIKA, Visible music, Poetry painting or poetry of our time ”, art-mystery“ Funeral of the crisis ”,“ POE: Threat or Words show ”);
2011-2016 - curator and participant of the 4th, 5th, 6th Moscow Biennale with special projects: “On Transparency”, “Spirit and Soil”, “Oil in the Square”

Participates in Russian and foreign exhibitions and performances from 1987 to the present. Works as an artist, performance artist, curator. He is the author of installations, assembling objects, performances, paintings, book objects, graphic sheets. Bright pages in his work were a collaboration with the art group "Thanatos", art historians S. Kuskov, A. Shumov, writer E. Limonov, philosophers A. Dugin and A. Velikanov, musician and artist S. Ponomarev.

“... Installations, objects, paintings, and experiments of“ ritual performance ”are more appropriate to consider not separately, but in a single semantic context. And when considering and comprehending the artistic experience of M. Roshnyak, a certain temporal sequence, or the logic of the author's formation, is revealed. It is she who leads to an understanding of the artist's super-tasks. Here we have in mind Michael's predisposition to a vivid as the meaning of life. Only through a vivid does he try to determine, to feel, for he alone knows the “open entrance to a closed text”. A meaningful construction of “parallel” spaces and worlds, a vivid of the galaxies visible only to him, by all available means, “here and now” is his creed. ”/ S.Kuskov /.


Participant of more than a hundred group exhibitions, 15 personal ones. Author and participant of more than 50 performances and actions.